Yet another exciting Highland High School Tech Lab Assignment!

THE ASSIGNMENT: Create an an informational page regarding a political party.

Political Party	Student
Liberal Democrat Party	*Sidney*
Labour Party	*Bryce*
Respect Party	*Maiya*
Scottish Green Party	*Blake*
UK Independence Party	*Hector*
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	*Brianna*
Sinn Fein Party	*Logan*
Democratic Unionist Party	*Kyle*
English Democrats Party	*Wyatt*
Constitution Party	*Riley*
Green Party	*Helen*
Libertarian Party	*Edsel*
Reform Party	*Brittney*
Prohibitionist Party	*Caleb*
Socialist Party of America	*Alyssa*

You will create an Informational Page which will include all of the following information, laid out on a single piece of paper in the following fashion. Instructions are below:

YOUR NAME:

NAME OF PARTY:

COUNTRY OF PARTY:

TIME PERIOD FROM:

TO:

MAIN REASON FOR FORMING PARTY ORIGINALLY:

MAIN ISSUES OF PARTY (BULLET POINT LIST):

EFFECTIVENESS: NUMBER OF MEMBERS ELECTED INTO OFFICE:

1= NEVER HAD ONE

5= REGULARLY HAS ELECTED MEMBERS

10= FREQUENTLY A MAJORITY PARTY

POLITICAL SPECTRUM RATING (LEFT TO RIGHT):

FAR LEFT/ RADICAL

LEFT/LIBERAL

MODERATE

RIGHT/CONSERVATIVE

FAR RIGHT/ REACTIONARY

How to complete your ANALYSIS SHEET:

Your name
Name of the Party you have been assigned.
Country of this party (this will be either the US or the United Kingdom)
Time period in history when this party was active in the U.S. (pink parties) or in the United Kingdom (blue parties). Give specific dates, if possible.
For what purpose was the party founded?
What are/were the MAIN issues of concern for this party? A bullet point list would be OK, please indicate if they are PRO or ANTI certain issues.
How successful the party was/is in having members elected to office? Describe. On a scale of 1-10, one being "never had a person elected," 5 being "this party regularly has elected members" to 10 "this party is frequently a majority party", where would you rank your party?
Where on the POLITICAL spectrum the party falls, LEFT-MIDDLE-RIGHT? Describe. On a scale of 1-10: 1 being RADICAL, 3 being LIBERAL, 5 being MODERATE/SQUISHIE, 7 being Conservative and 10 being REACTIONARY, where does your party fall?

SUBMISSION: When you are done with informational page, we will place them all on a spectrum from left to right, to see how the parties relate to each other in ideology. We will also compare the variety and success of political parties in other countries to those in the United States.